Colorado School Superintendent Recommends Dismissing Teacher Who Called Wrong Covington Boy Part Of ‘Hitler Youth’

7:11 PM 02/06/2019 | Education

Neetu Chandak | Education and Politics Reporter

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A Colorado school district superintendent recommended dismissing the middle school teacher who allegedly claimed on Twitter that a random student was part of the “Hitler Youth,” mistaking him for one of the Covington Catholic High School boys caught in the viral encounter with American Indian activist Nathan Phillips.

Michelle Grissom, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Mountain Ridge Middle School (MRMS) in Colorado, allegedly named and posted a picture of Covington Catholic student Jay Jackson as one of the boys wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18. Jackson was not in Washington at the time of incident that went viral on social media. Jackson’s dad, John Jackson, repeatedly asked Grissom to take down the tweets, but she only removed them once the district was contacted.

“My son was upset and fearful that his future would be ruined and this would follow him for the rest of his life,” John Jackson previously told TheDCNF.

Many have tried to doxx the Covington Catholic boys over the encounter with Phillips, assuming they were mocking the American Indian activist.

A Covington bishop, March for Life and others have apologized to the Kentucky students for making snap judgments before the full, unedited video came out.

Lawyers for Nick Sandmann, the student who was face-to-face with Phillips, are sending letters to media organizations and celebrities who vilified the students. This is the first step in a potentially big libel and defamation lawsuit.

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